Confidence in Police Recovers From Last Year’s Low

Americans’ confidence in the police has edged back up this year after dropping last year to its lowest point in 22 years. Currently, 56% of Americans have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in the police, four percentage points higher than in 2015. Confidence is essentially back to where it was before a series of highly publicized incidents involving white police officers and young black men in several communities across the country. CONT.

Frank Newport, Gallup

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